According to officials, a school fire that broke out Tuesday in the region of Mukono in central Uganda resulted in the death of eleven pupils.
According to a police statement released locally, the unfortunate occurrence at Salama School for the Blind happened around one in the morning local time.
“The cause of the fire is currently unknown but so far 11 deaths as a result of the fire have been confirmed while six are in critical conditions and admitted at Herona Hospital in Kisoga,” the statement said.
In Ugandan classrooms, fires frequently break out. The most recent fire occurred in January, when four kids perished in a school fire in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. In a high school fire that started in central Uganda in 2018, at least nine students perished.
Prior to the 2018 event, a second fatal school fire occurred in 2008 at Budo Junior School in the Wakiso area of the central region, which resulted in the deaths of 19 students.
In a separate development in the nation’s capital of Kampala, nine more persons have tested positive for the Ebola virus. With this, there are now 14 positive cases at the isolation unit of the facility.
In Kampala and the Entebbe region, health facilities were examined last week by officials to determine how prepared they were to manage Ebola patients.
More than a month has passed since the first reports of an epidemic of the Sudan strain of Ebola in central Uganda, in a rural area of the Mubende district.
